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dc.contributor.authorRylance, Ricken_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-04T10:15:55Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:12:23Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T13:57:18Z
dc.date.issued2004-09-01en_GB
dc.description.abstractMy title is derived from G. H. Lewes's psychological magnum opus Problems of Life and Mind (1874–79). Lewes's image is a metaphor for the relation of mind to brain, or more generally of the mind to the nervous system: “every mental phenomenon has its corresponding neural phenomenon (the two being as convex and concave surfaces of the same sphere, distinguishable yet identical)” (Problems: First Series 1: 112). His point is that, though the two entities can be analytically distinguished, they are as necessarily linked as the two surfaces of a bending plane. Like the recto and verso of a sheet of paper, or signifier and signified in the linguistic sign, one can make an interpretative separation of the two, but not an ontological one. It is a characteristically deft metaphor by Lewes to express a notoriously vexed relationship, not only in Victorian psychology but also in modern thinking today.en_GB
dc.identifier.citation32 (2): pp 449-462en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017.S1060150304000592en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/29443en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=241166en_GB
dc.subjectPsychological theory - 19th centuryen_GB
dc.subjectPsychological theory - Victorian perioden_GB
dc.subjectMind and bodyen_GB
dc.subjectLewes, G.H. - Problems of Life and Minden_GB
dc.titleConvex and concave: conceptual boundaries in psychology, now and then (but mainly then).en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2008-06-04T10:15:55Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:12:23Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T13:57:18Z
dc.identifier.issn1060-1503en_GB
dc.descriptionArticle from special issue on Victorian boundaries. Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 Cambridge University Press.en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1470-1553en_GB
dc.identifier.journalVictorian Literature and Cultureen_GB


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